Truth In Wellness | Fight for Your Health by Byron J. Richards

By Byron Richards
December 18, 2006
In the middle of the night the House passed a bill at the conclusion of the lame duck session known as Adverse Event Reporting legislation for dietary supplements (S.3546. The bill was pushed through the Senate and the House by Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT), also known as the Hatch-et-man. Many Congressional leaders were hoodwinked by Hatch to back the bill, as he passed around letters of various trade organizations to imply the bill had wide support amongst stakeholders (it does not). Others were most likely bribed with threats to hold other legislation hostage in the Senate unless Hatch-et-man’s bill was passed in the House.
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Big Pharma Juggernaut Rolls To Victory – Health Freedom Reels – Part 1

By Byron Richards
December 11, 2006
Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson not only rolled over in their graves, they had a stake driven through their coffins by the departing 109th Congress. Big Pharma is now fully in charge of the FDA. Therapeutic nutrition is now marked for elimination from the free market. How did this happen? What does it all mean? Why did the House Democrats, at 3:06 A.M., while Americans slept, stab our people in the back? It is an ominous sign of things to come.
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Big Pharma Trojan Horses Permeate Supplement Industry

By Byron Richards
December 5, 2006
Today I received an e-mail from the Natural Products Association (NPA) asking me to supportthe Dietary Supplement and Non-Prescription Drug Consumer Protection Act (the “AER bill”). Apparently they do not know I am one of the most outspoken critics of this legislation. I have already posted two articles on this topic for NWV, one in July and one in November. The NPA, formerly the NNFA (National Nutritional Foods Association), is the largest trade association for ingredient suppliers and health food stores. This group, along with CRN (the Council for Responsible Nutrition) has been taken over by Big Pharma and is selling out the supplement industry.
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How the FDA is Causing the Obesity Epidemic

By Byron Richards
November 2, 2006
I am amazed by the relentless attack of Big Pharma-controlled media on dietary supplements that help people lose weight. The FDA, colluding illegally with health officials in Mexico and Canada, has weight-loss fraud at the top of their list. The FDA is constantly insinuating that all weight-loss supplements are fraudulent and unproven, and they implore all consumers to beware. As one of the leading clinical nutritionists in this country and owner of Wellness Resources, an independent supplement company, I have over twenty years experience helping individuals lose weight with diet, exercise, and nutritional supplements. I’m more than happy to weigh in on this subject from my experienced point of view.
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FDA Attacks Small Nutrition Companies

By Byron Richards
October 26, 2006
On October 19, 2006, the FDA fired off twenty-four warning letters to small nutrition companies that made claims they had natural remedies to help with diabetes. At first glance, one might think the FDA was actually doing its job. With tremendous bravado they announced to the world their trouncing of internet fraud. It is interesting how the FDA is now teaming up with Mexican and Canadian health authorities to attack American companies, part of the FDA’s illegal North American Union.
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Mutiny by an FDA Advisory Panel

By Byron Richards
October 12, 2006
The FDA has created its own monster. Could it be that an FDA advisory panel actually has enough impartial members to be truly concerned about the health and well being of all Americans? No doubt, the top FDA officials were squirming in their boots as five current and past members of the Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee went public with their call for sweeping changes at the FDA.
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Bayer Caught Deceiving the FDA

By Byron Richards
October 3, 2006
The next Vioxx scandal has now landed on the FDA’s plate. A secret tip to the FDA forced Bayer to admit they had failed to disclose serious safety data. Bayer scientists recently testified before an FDA advisory panel investigating the company’s heart-surgery drug, Trasylol. They failed to mention a new study Bayer commissioned for the drug, one that contained highly unfavorable results. On Friday September 29, 2006, the FDA, stung by the blatant deception, announced to the world that Bayer hid safety data during the FDA investigation. The FDA reported that the new data showed an “increased risk for death, kidney failure, congestive heart failure and stroke,” yet the FDA failed to pull the drug from the market.
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Secret Rumsfield Meeting to Implement North American Union; Health Freedom in Jeopardy

By Byron Richards
September 21, 2006
There he stood, a man with a captive audience of fellow anti-American neo-cons bent on one world government. His mission: to lay out the military and security integration of Canada, Mexico, and the United States. The date: September 13, 2006. The place: Banff Springs Hotel, Alberta, Canada. The forum: a secret meeting of the powerful elite, a meeting that all of a sudden become not so secret. The man: Donald Rumsfeld, point puppet for the Bush administration’s planned integration known as the North American Union. This is serious government collusion behind the backs of the citizens of the United States, Canada, and Mexico. It is government for the elite, not government representing the people.
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Big Pharma and the FDA Strike Oil While Injuring Millions

By Byron Richards
September 7, 2006
Over one million Americans have been killed by Big Pharma in the last decade. Tens of millions have been seriously injured. Every person knows someone whose life has been damaged or snuffed out by Big Pharma. Consumers call for improved safety. Politicians pretending to respond to consumer outrage have now introduced legislation that, if passed, would create a new FDA—a Big Pharma FDA. At the same time, good legislation that would begin to address the multitude of major FDA problems has been scuttled.
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The FDA Approves Viral Adulteration of Our Food Supply

By Byron Richards
August 24, 2006
On Friday, August 18, 2006, the FDA approved a viral cocktail to be sprayed on foods we eat. This is the first time viruses have been approved for use as food additives. The FDA wants you to believe it will be safe to consume these viruses every day for the rest of your life with no adverse health effects. Not surprisingly, the FDA doesn’t want you to know which foods are adulterated in this manner, for fear you may not buy them; thus, no labeling will be required. This is a monumental announcement by the FDA, indicating they are throwing all caution to the wind regarding the safety of our food supply.
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FDA Poised to Change the Health & Well Being of All Americans

By Byron Richards
August 13, 2006
The FDA is now poised to dramatically change the health and well being of all Americans. Unfortunately, they are headed in the wrong direction—straight over a cliff. The FDA is supposed to make sure drugs are safe and effective; they are mandated to protect the public. However, the top two positions at the FDA are now headed by Big Pharma representatives. The Bush-appointed new FDA leadership is intent on removing any brakes being applied to the drug approval process, quite happy to turn ill Americans into human guinea pigs.
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The Meltdown of Public Health and Personal Freedom

By Byron Richards
August 2, 2006
The United States government and especially the FDA have lost credibility in assisting you with your personal health. Instead, they have placed the vast resources of our federal government behind a twisted public health agenda that perpetuates the profits of the elite and the unspoken primary agenda of eugenics. The daily assault on American freedom is now like living in the twilight zone. Public health policy, under the guise of public benefit, is a primary tool of a despotic regime. It is a system designed to convince Americans to hand over their remaining freedoms, as a decayed government grapples to maintain control over its increasingly restless citizens.
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Can Knowledge Preserve Your Right to Be Healthy?

By Byron Richards
July 22, 2006
Health is far and away a person’s most important asset. Protecting this asset from accelerated decay is no small challenge. Indeed, the cards are stacked against the individual.

There are many obstacles to health. Our land, water, and air are heavily polluted with disease-provoking toxins. Our food supply contains various adulterations in the form neuro-toxic pesticides, preservatives, coal-tar derived coloring agents, MSG, genetically modified food (that express the Bt toxin in every cell), excessively processed food, too much sugar/corn syrup and artificial chemical sweeteners, and high-fat junk food. Big Pharma promotes and excessively pushes toxic drugs on society, in far greater excess than their true need.
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Bush’s Stem Cell Propaganda

By Byron Richards
July 19, 2006
On July 19, 2006 President Bush employed his first presidential veto, rejecting a bill for the expansion of stem cell research. He told Americans stem cell research “crosses a moral boundary that our decent society needs to respect.” A close examination of the issue shows that this is merely a public relations ploy to preserve the profits of struggling Big Pharma and perpetuate the sickness industry at the expense of health improvements for millions of Americans.

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The FDA Lowers the Boom on Citizens’ Rights

By Byron Richards
July 13, 2006
An ominous tone is now set as the FDA embarks upon its second hundred years. New drug labels, which have been in development for years and are intended to improve consumer safety, went into effect on June 30, 2006. In typical FDA fashion, a program that should have helped patients has been twisted. The FDA took this opportunity to sneak disclaimer language on the new labels, seeking to prevent patients from suing pharmaceutical companies if a drug injures or kills.

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The FDA - A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

By Byron Richards
July 6, 2006
The FDA has conveniently used the excuse of looking out for consumer safety to increase their perverse regulatory power, undermine free speech, disrupt commerce, and generally get in the way of helping people improve their health. The “half-truth” of the safety issue is used as a ploy to reduce the rights of Americans, one freedom at a time. Once again, the FDA is seeking more police power to intimidate supplement companies. This is one step in an overall FDA master plan to eliminate therapeutic nutritional supplements from the free market. Those who lose are the American public.

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The FDA Celebrates One Hundred Years of Pretense

By Byron Richards
June 30, 2006
Today marks the one-hundred-year birthday of the FDA. To celebrate, the FDA plans a gala event at the Harvey W. Wiley federal building. The FDA is touting Dr. Wiley as the “Father of the Pure Food and Drugs Act,” inviting his decedents to attend their event. The FDA is quite proud of the heritage Dr. Wiley has bestowed upon them.

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